Leadership Quotes

Leadership is not about being in charge — it is about taking care of the people in your charge. These quotes cover management, vision, decision-making, and the qualities that separate leaders people follow willingly from those people merely tolerate.

“Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.”

Christie Hefner

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“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

Ralph Nader

“We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”

Donald Trump

“I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.”

Anna Deavere Smith

“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

Tom Peters

“I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.”

Newt Gingrich

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

Andrew Carnegie

“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.”

Kamisese Mara

“Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.”

Mitt Romney

“We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.”

Marco Rubio

“The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.”

Michael Gove

“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.”

Chinua Achebe

“Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.”

Jimmy Carter

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